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It’s kind of a ritual for critics in the West to pick their favourite 10 films of the year gone by and even here in Bollywood newspapers and news channels are pouncing on the habit. But sadly, most of the papers and channels pick the Top 10 based on box office collections. While that to me is a great barometer to judge the quality of the film, it is not necessarily the best one. The paper I write for, they too, are going by the box office profits as a basis for zeroing on the best films of the year 2007. Which gives me complete liberty to pick my favourite 10 Bollywood films of this year. Here they are in no particular order with 5 keywords for each on why I have put them on the list. There’s a disclaimer in the end - the films I haven’t watched.

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People will always complain. It’s in their genes, branded in their sensibilities. And when it comes to films not only does everyone have an opinion about things but as it seems, everyone has a unique complain regarding it. There is no escape from this, no matter what genre of film you make, be it a ‘social satire’, a ‘thriller’, ‘rock musical’ or in this case a look into a world under veils unfamiliar/ inexperienced by most of the audience…..a friend of mine said this. Here is another complainer. Am not a fan of Madhur Bhandarkar’s films, its true that I don’t hate them its just that I don’t care for them. Found “Traffic Signal” to be an infinite snore fest, “Corporate” despite the ending which redeemed it a bit, seemed hastily done by a person with least knowledge and experience of the world he is talking about, “PAGE 3″ with …

Welcome to a peek into the world of fashion. We saw glimpses of characters from this world in Page 3. Madhur Bhandarkar now takes us further into this world,  and to communicate to us that he’s researched extensively on this subject,  he’s there in a scene where during a fashion show an onlooker points to him and says ‘ That’s Madhur Bhandarkar, the maker of realistic movies, he’s here to research for a movie’

He’s certainly done his research very well. Fashion is another addition to his series of realistic movies.

Fashion takes us into the  backstage of this very glamorous world. The fashion Industry has grown tremendously in India and we’ve recently witnessed three fashion weeks. We are familiar with the designers who rock these shows, the models who swish down the ramps, the buyers who fill up the front rows, the modeling agencies honchos, the media and the marginal male …